EDM challenge 169

Draw a piece of cake...did i say i LOVE chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing AND of course a good ice cream like Breyers or Hagan Daas....perfect on a pretty plate!! YUM

Watercolor pencils and Watercolor in my watercolor moleskine journal

a couple of late may posts

well i made it to day 25 and then...company for memorial day...my antique parents...my son came home from school to study for the bar...other than that NOT much going on here...so sketching went by the way side...i did finish two socks...does that count??!

ALso finished up the last week of school..its out ...hallelujah!!!! two months of freedom to lol in the pool, sew and paint and draw...funnnnn and do a little gardening?!

So i just did jazz this morning while she was snoozing on the back of a quilt...love that fabric on the back of this quilt...which is the side shes snoozing on.... i had fun playing with the shadows on this one...i dont know if you can see them..they are all brights like lime, turquoise, and yellow and then a lilac with a bit of blue violet to sharpen the eges of the shadows....fun stuff...felt like i was degas:>

I decided to experiment and use the stitch feature to get rid of the seam in the picture...now shes an even shorter fatter dog...lol...this is the last reiger painting ...they are going in the ground till fall in just a little while...had to wait till it got hot out to dig in the dirt...my bad....pen and ink on hmmm whatkind of wc paper...dunno right now...daniel smith...the pigma pen as bleeding for some reason or other...who knows why...i used salt on the background...liked that effect very much...and alot of quin pink...no I am NOT going to spell that word...but it did make a yummy purple...

So I am ahead for day is it really day 25???

This is the one i did not finish...and since i did not lay all the stuff back out...it may have a problem or two? Can you find it?:> Had to add some lime green in the shadows...my box of prismacolor art sticks has the lovely big stick of LIME green...think for june i will try to insert lime green in everything i do:> I was watching the first season of 24 on dvd while i was working on this...boy that show is just riveting...and very interesting visually...finished a whole sock from the heel to the toe while watching five of the shows...the beat of the music gets those needles clicking at top speed:>


This is the first one...see why i didnt post it...wasnt finished and it was terrible:>

Day 18 and

how many more days are there...its like the end of school...THIRTEEN:>

This is a picture i painted for a friends birthday today...its of her two pitbulls wilbur and charlotte. I found the picture of them while i was surfing her blog a while back and thought that would clean up to be a great painting or cp sketch for kim for her birthday. She loves her babies like crazy..her furkids...

Is anyone ever satisfied with thier work...I started to do some more to this today...but decided wrap it and leave it...the brown dog Charlotte...could have been redder I think and i really dont like what i did to the deck...its too heavy handed i think ...needs some white showing thru...but at 1 in the morning...welll mistakes get made:> and overall I know she will love it...so thats what counts right??

So i made May 15 despite everything I had to do

today...work, a class afterwards and the golden apple teacher awards at 6:30...what a posh affair that was...anyway thank goodness my class was canceled...the poor teacher was sick so i took my gift certificate for Starbucks and went there to draw...and this is what i did....so now maybe i will get to color them...where is my sofa...just home and TIREDDDD...NIte all....

BYTW when i was tagged shoulda added that Lady Nolly was chosen one of 15 art quilts to represent what Katrina meant to us at International Quilt Festival...shes Lady new orleans(Nolly) rising out of the flood waters a bit bruised and battered but still lovely, with the promise of ....well you get the idea:> And that she and I and The coral reef quilt will be on SCETV road show next week at either 6:30 or 7:00 on May 21...OMG LIVE ...what did i agree to do????

Saturday and Sundays paintings

still trying to catch up..this is may 12 and 13....hmm if i stay one ahead though i can take a day off right:> this is a wc off the graduate relaxing after graduating from law school with honors and highest distinction AND staying up all nite...well most of the nite...relaxing...

the view out his apartment window...everywhere you looked there were paintable views in the city...you could just put a stool down kerplunk and turn out a great painting...this would have beeennn better if it were larger and painted when i drew it...same goes for drews painting above...

ok so this is another mothers day offering...I drew ever watchful jazz on the her perch on the back of the sofa...she will tell you shes one of my kids...my furkid:> she loves a quilt...all my quilts are jack russell approved:> Happy Mothers Day to all the furkids moms too:>!!

the eleventh day of may

sitting at Toyota waiting for the car to be tuned up...after drooling over the latest new cars in the show room i sat down to hmmmm draw....NO molie....well drawing molie that is...oop it was in my car which was in the shop...

So i got out my writing molie that a friend gave me and drew these..with a large pointed gel pen...no fel tip either.I think the lady on the left thought i was doing something...she got up and left...oopsss....

May tenth...

how many more days are left??? I was actually freaking out today thinking i had left this sketch at work...and my moleskines...thinking HOW can i go a WHOLE weekend without them..heading to graduation...aka hooding in law school tomorrow...and didnt want to have to go and pick all THREE moleskines up..the kids were "reading them" today...this is in my small wc moleskine...After school i taught a couple of the kinderkids how to draw people and they really did a stellar job...wish i had brought them home to scan for you...these kids drawings are really outstanding...even compared to older kids in the school....

This is a sketch of the wiggle worms wiggling waiting for lunch...finished it up while i was supposed to be at lunch..drawing is much more slimming than eating:> Watercolor in my small moleskine...they are sitting on a bright primary colored rug waiting for everyone to finish washing up for lunch...drew the figures first and then the background...when they had left for lunch...the three little girls in this picture have turned into quite the artists...drawing loads of pigtailed girls...with butterflies and flowers...the fifth graders would LOVE to draw like they do!